You Can Make Christmas Ornaments Inspired by Historical Folk Art

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Colonial Williamsburg employees Jan Gilliam and Christina Westenberger spent 2010 experimenting with handmade Christmas tree ornaments.

They crafted felt snowmen, aluminum and copper star garlands and scherenschnitte birds. Recycled materials were used to fashion many ornaments, like metal hearts out of juice can lids, snowflakes out of pages from old books, stars out of used greeting cards and fabric hearts out of old denim jeans. Along the way, they trashed decorations that just didn't work out, like animals from Noah's Ark and a stitched turnip because they looked bad or were too complicated.

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You Can Make Christmas Ornaments Inspired by Historical Folk Art

Their successes are showcased in the new Colonial Williamsburg book, "The Art-Full Tree: Ornaments to Make Inspired by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum" with 143 pages of illustrations, templates and projects to make decorations...

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